Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology 4e By James T

Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology 4e

By James T. Cassidy, MD, Professor of Child Health, Chief, Division of Pediatric Rhemumatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia; and Ross E. Petty, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Professor of Pediatrics, Head, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia

All essential clinical information on paediatric rheumatology is covered in this single, authoritative volume. The 4th edition of Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology comprehensively covers the most current information on rheumatic and non-rheumatic musculoskeletal disorders of children and adolescents. The new edition has been extensively rewritten to provide definitive, up-to-the-minute guidance for your practice. International leading experts offer balanced, authoritative views of epidemiology, relevant basic sciences, and therapeutics.

Reviews

"A comprehensive reference for this poorly understood field...The photographs are indispensable...Scientifically rigorous."-Family Medicine

Features

* Covers the differential diagnosis of problems related to limb pain, skeletal infections and malignancies, and hereditary and metabolic abnormalities.

* Includes information on the presentation, differential diagnosis, course, treatment, and prognosis for every major rheumatic disease.

* Features nearly 500 illustrations, many of them new, to summarize important concepts and clarify more difficult text.